Craigslist ad tweaks Buck

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Curtis Hubbard
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August 25, 2010 @ 11:10 am
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The ad posted to craigslist

Let the games begin!

An anonymous craigslist poster is having fun at the expense of Weld County District Attorney and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck[2].

An ad posted[3] to the internet classifieds site seeks a part-time Weld County DA, making light of the time the campaign has kept Buck away from his job (Buck announced earlier this week [4]that he would forgo his pay for the final two months of the campaign):

The position is part-time, includes 113 paid vacation days at taxpayer expense, allows for abundant travel, guaranteed yearly pay raise regardless of performance, and full health care and retirement benefits. Must be a bar certified attorney. No obligation to prosecute cases in court.

Perhaps the most memorable of Swartout’s campaign ‘stunts’ took place almost exactly eight years ago (Aug. 24, 2002), when Republican supporters of Sen. Wayne Allard[7] met Tom Strickland[8] as he climbed Grays Peak, stealing the spotlight from the Democratic nominee in his effort to draw attention to his environmental record.

When Strickland announced he was going to climb the Fourteeners, it was obviously a way to make his environmental creds stick. If it’s me, I just pull out my Greenpeace save-the- whales coffee mug. But Strickland actually likes to climb mountains. Of course, he already has the backing of several environmental groups. But he also has the “$1.4-million-a-year-polluter-lobbyist” label that the Allard campaign has stuck on him.

OK, “$1.4-million-a-year-polluter-lobbyist” doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue. But it is a serious upgrade from the “lawyer-lobbyist” Allard pinned on him in 1996 during Allard-Strickland, the Prequel. And you know how that one turned out.

This climb up Grays Peak was the perfect photo op, until the Allard folks ruined the view.

They knew about the climb last Saturday. And they decided to beat Strickland to the top. That’s why there’s this picture of Strickland with his head down as he walks past Allard’s people. Of course, in the pictures I saw, I didn’t see Allard anywhere in sight.

I don’t have access to the priceless photo that the Rocky ran to commemorate the occasion, but if anyone from Team Allard wants to email it, I’m happy to post it for the sake of history, and levity.